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No one can have everything, so you have to try for what you want most.

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Mae West
Age: 87 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 17
Died: 1980
Died: November 22
Actor
Actress
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Comedian
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Playwright
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Mary Jane West
Jane West
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Everything
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Witty

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When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me?
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Dating means two things disillusionment or a racing heart.
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Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening. . . . Come up. I'll tell your fortune. . . . Ah, you can be had.
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Girls, give all your gentlemen friends an even break, even if you have to break them in the attempt.
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Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
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I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
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Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (She made this remark in February 1936, at the railway station in Los Angeles upon her return from Chicago, when a Los Angeles police officer was assigned to escort her home)
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Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.
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When women go wrong, men go right after them.
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I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.
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How tall are you big boy? Six foot nine inches! Let's go up to my place and talk about the nine inches!
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Always remember honey. A good motto is: Take all you can get and give as little as possible.
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There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.
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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
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One more drink and I'll be under the host.
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Just a little sheep dip. Panacea for all stomach ailments.
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The censors wouldn't even let me sit on a guy's lap, and I've been on more laps than a table-napkin.
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A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay.
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